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The 2011 Arab Spring protests seemed to mark a turning point in Middle East politics, away from authoritarianism and toward democracy. Within a few years, however, most observers saw the protests as a failure given the outbreak of civil wars and re-emergence of authoritarian strongmen in countries like Egypt. But in Delta Democracy, Catherine E. Herrold argues that we should not overlook the ongoing mobilization taking place in grassroots civil society. Drawing upon ethnographic research on Egypt's nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the wake of the uprisings, Herrold uncovers the strategies that local NGOs used to build a more democratic and just society. Departing from US-based democracy advocates' attempts to reform national political institutions, local Egyptian organizations worked with communities to build a culture of democracy through public discussion, debate, and collective action. At present, these forms of participatory democracy are more attainable than establishing fair elections or parliaments, and they are helping Egyptians regain a sense of freedom that they have been denied as the long-time subjects of a dictator. Delta Democracy advances our understanding of how civil society organizations maneuver under state repression in order to combat authoritarianism. It also offers a concrete set of recommendations on how US policymakers can restructure foreign aid to better help local community organizations fighting to expand democracy.

This book discusses Brexit's implications for the two most important security institutions in Europe, the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). While Brexit is still unfolding, this book asks what it would mean for the future embedding of the UK into CFSP and NATO, as well as how it will most likely affect the inner mechanics of the transatlantic alliance (NATO) and CFSP in particular, in the years to come. The book is divided into two parts. Part I provides a historical overview of the evolution of the relationships between the UK and NATO and the EU, respectively. Part II discusses the geopolitical contexts and potential impacts of Brexit, focusing on the contemporary security environment, as well as the options that the EU has, in the event an agreement is concluded. Using both predictive and normative arguments, this book provides likely scenarios for an event that continues to be a source of much uncertainty for the global community. Making an important contribution to one of the most important policy debates in international security affairs today, this book is of interest to students and researchers of international security affairs, European politics, and global governance as well as policymakers and practitioners working on the Brexit file.

Intro -- Contents -- Hovering -- Introduction - carla bergman -- What Is EMMA Talks? - carla bergman and Corin Browne -- The Story of EMMA Talks - carla bergman -- CHAPTER ONE -- Assemble -- Sanibe - Christa Couture -- Telling a New Story - Tasha Kaur -- We Owe Each Other Kindness - Kinnie Starr -- On the Last Leg of the Journey: An Interview with Helen Hughes - carla bergman -- On the Meaning of 'Gossip' - Silvia Federici -- CHAPTER TWO -- Formation -- Downstream Ritual - Lara Messersmith-Glavin -- Spirit. Magic. Revolution. - Shaunga Tagore -- The Scrutiny of Now - Maneo Mohale -- All the Ways that Capitalism Sucks (or at Least Some of Them) - Kian Cham -- Being Democratic - Dorothy Woodend -- CHAPTER THREE -- Alighted -- Lilac Tree -- EMMA Talks Community-Engaged Art Practice - Corin Browne -- Lost Lagoon -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Ascending -- I'm Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya -- What I Know About My Brother - Walidah Imarisha -- Excerpts from Mixed Vegetable - Anoushka Ratnarajah -- In the Shadow of Bluebeard's Castle - Margret Killjoy -- Where are the Gears? Thoughts on Resisting the (Neoliberal, Networked) Machine - Astra Taylor -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Soaring -- Everything Inside of Us - Tasnim Nathoo -- Squamish Matriarchy - Michelle Lorna Nahanee -- L'hen Awtxw - Weaving Knowledge into the Future - Chief Janice George / Chepximiya Siyam -- My Journey to Islamic Feminism - dr. amina wadud -- Two Stories - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Image Credits -- List of Contributors.

Antibody Patenting' provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of all aspects relating to the patenting of antibodies from initial drafting and prosecution to enforcement. Antibodies have revolutionized medicine and biotechnology, and have become indispensable tools in therapy, diagnostics, analytics, and research. Therapeutic antibodies, for example, have come to dominate the ranks of blockbuster drugs, currently accounting for 10 out of the top 15 best-selling medicines. At the same time, a body of case law dealing specifically with the patentability of antibody-related inventions and the enforcement of antibody patents has emerged in major jurisdictions. The, at times, significant divergences between different jurisdictions have been compounded by recent decisions in the United States, most notably Amgen v. Sanofi, 872 F.3d 1367 (Fed. Cir. 2017), which have severely curtailed the possibilities to obtain broad antibody patents. It is therefore essential to understand how antibody inventions are assessed in different jurisdictions in order to secure an optimal patent protection and to successfully enforce such patents.00This book covers 23 of the most important IP jurisdictions worldwide ? i.e., the European Patent Office, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Israel, the United States of America, Argentina, the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru), Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Australia

Semi-structured interviews are a qualitative approach to collecting data. While they begin with a set of standardized questions which are asked of multiple respondents, this method could also be described as an organized conversation that is guided by new information obtained as the interactive discussion unfolds. This case study highlights a series of research studies that used semi-structured interviews to collect data from criminal justice practitioners working in corrections and courts. These semi-structured interviews provided rich and detailed information from multiple perspectives on what it is like to work in the specific areas of institutional and community corrections, including problem-solving courts. This research method is useful for understanding viewpoints of key stakeholders within an agency because it allows the respondent to participate in the process and discuss concerns related to the research questions that are of primary importance to people working in that particular environment. Although semi-structured interviews begin with a set of questions, researchers need to be attuned to the ongoing discussion and ask pertinent follow-up questions that elaborate on more general knowledge. By digging deep into topic areas generated by participants, semi-structured interviews can help researchers understand how and why something occurs, and provide data to support more rigorous testing of processes and expected outcomes related to the specific procedures of a program.

"Highlighting the geopolitical and economic circumstances that have prompted migration from Hong Kong and mainland China to Canada, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities examines the Chinese Canadian community as a simultaneously transcultural, transnational, and domestic social and cultural formation. Essays in this volume argue that Chinese Canadians, a population that has produced significant cultural imprints on Canadian society, must create and constantly redefine their identities as manifested in social science, literary, and historical spheres. These perpetual negotiations reflect social and cultural ideologies and practices and demonstrate Chinese Canadians' recreations of their self-perception, self-expression, and self-projection in relation to others. Contextualized within larger debates on multicultural society and specific Chinese Canadian cultural experiences, this book considers diverse cultural presentations of literary expression, the "model minority" and the influence of gender and profession on success and failure, the gendered dynamics of migration and the growth of transnational ("astronaut") families in the 1980s, and inter-ethnic boundary crossing. Taking an innovative approach to the ways in which Chinese Canadians adapt to and construct the Canadian multicultural mosaic, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities explores various patterns of Chinese cultural interchanges in Canada and how they intertwine with the community's sense of disengagement and belonging."--

Michael Paul Rogin's scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. He reconstituted the field by opening it to an array of texts, performances, and methods previously considered beyond the purview of the discipline. His work addressed the relationship between dimensions of politics typically split apart - institutional power and cultural forms, material interests and symbolic meanings, class projects and identity politics, the public and the private. Rogin's scholarship enlarges our sense of the borders and genres defining political theory as a field and enriches our capacity to think critically and creatively about the political. The editors have focused on three categories of substantive innovation: Demonology and Countersubversion Rogin used the concepts "countersubversive tradition "and "political demonology "to theorize how constitutive exclusions and charged images of otherness generated imagined national community. He exposed not only the dynamics of suppressing and delegitimizing political opposition, but also how politics itself is devalued and displaced. The Psychic Life of Liberal Society Rogin addressed the essential contradiction in liberalism as both an ideology and a regime - how a polity professing equality, liberty, and pluralist toleration engages in genocide, slavery, and imperial war. Political Mediation: Institutions and Culture Rogin demonstrated how cultural forms - pervasive myths, literary and cinematic works - mediate political life, and how political institutions mediate cultural energies and aspirations.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 Value and Values in Food Projects in Europe -- Part One: Prosuming Values -- 2 Food Values in a Lisbon Urban Garden: Between Sabor, Saber, and the Market -- 3 Growing Together: Conspicuous Production and Quality Produce in Czech Community Gardens -- 4 Subsistence Farming in Styria, Austria -- Part Two: Calculating Values -- 5 The Moral Price of Milk: Food Values and the Intersection of Moralities and Economies in Dairy Family Farms in Galicia -- 6 From Milk Price to Milk Value: Sardinian Sheepherders Facing Neoliberal Restructuring -- 7 "Small Farms, Better Food": Valuing Local Agri-Food Systems in Europe from the European Peasants Coordination to the Nyéléni European Forum for Food Sovereignty -- Part Three: Connecting Values -- 8 Solidarity, Calculation, and Economic Proximity inside the "Vegetable Basket" System in the South of France -- 9 Within and Beyond the Market System: Organic Food Cooperatives in Catalonia -- 10 Seventy Percent Zapatista? Solidarity "Ecosystems" and the Troubles of Valuing Labor in Food Cooperatives -- Part Four: Consuming Values -- 11 Fairness Is Elsewhere: "Training" Fair Trade in Post-Socialist Contexts -- 12 The Changing Value of Food: Calculating Moldova's Poverty -- 13 Food Values among African Caribbean Migrants in England -- 14 Debating Halal in Contemporary Denmark -- 15 Concluding Comments: The Essential Ambiguity of the Value of Food -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Copyright.

The political in governance and planning / Ayda Eraydin & Klaus Frey -- Crisis in planning theory : is the political a way out of the impasse in planning? / Ayda Eraydin & Tuna Tasan-Kok -- Planning and governance : towards radical political approaches / Rainer Randolph & Klaus Frey -- Multi-level power relations and planning conflicts in a "land of exception" : the case of the Sughereta di Niscemi Reserve in Sicily / Francesco Lo Piccolo, Filippo Schilleci & Vincenzo Todaro -- Engaging in politics of participation : managing power through action research / Anli Ataöv, Güliz Bilgin Altinöz & Neriman Sahin Güçhan -- Different understandings of "public interest" as a source of conflict : Portuguese spatial planning and practice / Joana Almeida & Fernando Nunes Da Silva -- The conflict between free market capitalism and social policies : Mexican housing policy / Alfonso Iracheta -- Shifting political conditions for spatial planning in the Nordic countries / Peter Schmitt & Lukas Smas -- Politicising the regional scale? : the politics of metropolitan governance in Germany, Canada and Brazil / Karsten Zimmermann -- Local welfare governance and social innovation : the ambivalence of the political dimension / Lavinia Bifulco & Maria Dodaro -- Politicisation of community development : universities as boundary objects / Anne Taufen -- A counter-movement to "place-less" power : planners as progressive place-based leaders / Robin Hambleton -- Scientific knowledge and decision-making in planning : understanding emotional aspects / Ilhan Tekeli -- Afterword : I am realistic. I expect miracles / Klaus Frey & Ayda Eraydin

In Sure 6, Vers 38, wird dem Muslim versichert, dass Allah im Koran »nichts ausgelassen« habe. Diese Worte beziehen sich auf Allahs Kenntnis von allen Vorgängen in seiner Schöpfung. Im sunnitischen Islam liest man aus ihnen heraus, dass Allah im Koran und in den durch ihn selber inspirierten Worten und Taten Mohammeds das Geschehen in der Welt und die Daseinsordnung der Menschen vollständig und endgültig dargelegt habe. Das Sunnitentum, das dank dem Auftreten des Propheten Wirklichkeit geworden sei, verkünde seit dessen Tod diese unveränderliche Wahrheit und stehe für deren Anwendung gerade. In der quellennahen Studie analysiert Nagel die theologischen und gesellschaftsbezogenen Grundideen von dreißig Personen, die für die Geschichte des sunnitischen Islams von erstrangiger Bedeutung waren. Es wird erstmalig sichtbar, wie sich über Jahrhunderte das sunnitische Selbstverständnis herausgebildet hat und welchen Veränderungen es unterlag. Die gebührende Aufmerksamkeit widmet Nagel dem Sunnitentum der Neuzeit und legt dabei die mittelalterlichen Wurzeln frei, aus denen dessen Charakteristika wuchsen. »The Crushing Burden of Eternal Directives« The publication is the first comprehensive study of the most important religious and political group within Islam. The author identifies four major stages of the history of Sunnism: 1. It took about four centuries until Sunnism succeded in being recognized as the legitimate continuation of the Medinian community founded by the prophet Mohammed. 2. This success enabled Sunnism to overcome the challenge of the philosophical traditions of antiquity. 3. Since the 13th century A.D. the belief that Mohammed was still present among the Sunni moslems became widely spread. 4. Yet it is already since the 11th century that we can trace out the denial of that popular tenet, a denial which has become characteristic of contemporary Sunnism.

Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Behavioral Medicine and Integrated Care: Efficient Delivery of Effective Treatments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: The Role of Behavioral Medicine in Integrated Healthcare -- Introduction -- Effectiveness of Lifestyle and Self-Management Interventions -- Children-Focused Randomized Controlled Interventions -- Middle Age Adult-Focused Randomized Controlled Interventions -- Elderly Adult-Focused Randomized Controlled Interventions -- Summary of Critical Components of Behavioral Interventions -- Multidisciplinary Approaches to Healthcare and Cost-Effectiveness -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: The Epidemiology of Medical Diseases and Associated Behavioral Risk Factors -- Introduction -- Chronic Diseases and Their Behavioral Factors -- Diabetes Mellitus -- Obesity -- Dementia -- Chronic Pain -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Key Problems in Healthcare Service Delivery -- Chapter 4: Provider Training: Recognizing the Relevance of Behavioral Medicine and the Importance of Behavioral Health Consultation and Referral -- Value-Based Behavioral Medicine and the Predominant Models of Behavioral Medicine: The Collaborative Care Model (CCM) and Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) -- Behavioral Medicine Competencies and Value-Based Care -- Exemplar Training and Education Programs -- Exemplar Integrated Care Behavioral Medicine Training Programs -- Exemplar Approaches to Implementing Integrated Care Behavioral Medicine Training Programs -- Emerging Value-Based Competencies -- Community Health Worker, Lay and Medical Assistant Behavioral Medicine Workforce Development -- Health Technologies and Behavioral Medicine: Apps and Wearables -- Emerging Value-Based Payment Models and Behavioral Medicine -- Summary.

"Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living. If capitalism and its drive towards consumption has produced social and environmental degradation, is it the best medium to identify solutions "Sustainable Communities and Green Lifestyles" examines one ecovillage as it attempts to create a sense of community while reducing its impact on the natural environment. Through extensive participant observation, the book demonstrates how ecovillages are immersed within a larger discourse of class, race, and lifestyle choices, highlighting the inseparability of environmental sustainability and social justice. Sustainable communities are confronted by the contradictions of green consumption and must address social inequality or risk focusing inward on personal green consumerism, creating mere green havens for the few who can afford to live in them.? This book, cautious of redirecting environmentalist efforts away from structural solutions and onto personal environmentalism, offers a critical perspective on the challenges of an emerging green lifestyle. This book offers a critical perspective on the direction of US environmentalism and contributes to debates in environmental studies, anthropology, and urban planning."--Provided by publisher.

Foreword -- Preface -- Table of Content -- List of Tables -- Table of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Innovation and Contribution -- 1.3. Structure of the Thesis -- 2. Lead User Product Development -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. The Lead User Concept -- 2.2.1. Conceptual Fundamentals -- 2.2.2. Methodological Ancestors -- 2.2.3. Lead User Characteristics -- 2.2.4. Analogous Markets -- 2.2.5. Motivational Background -- 2.3. The Lead User Method -- 2.3.1. The Traditional Lead User Method -- 2.3.2. Selected Methodological Adaptions -- 2.3.3. Selected Adaptions to Lead User Classification -- 2.3.4. Selected Adaptions to Lead User Identification -- 2.3.5. Selected Adaptions to the Methodological Scope -- 2.4. Lead Users in Practice -- 2.4.1. Applications and Recommendations -- 2.4.2. Performance Measurement -- 2.4.3. Relevance in Practice -- 2.5. Derived Challenges -- 3. Consumer Preferences -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Preference Measurement -- 3.2.1. Conceptual Fundamentals -- 3.2.2. Preference Modelling -- 3.2.3. Utility Modelling -- 3.3. Methodological Applications -- 3.3.1. Compositional Methods -- 3.3.2. Decompositional Methods -- 3.3.3. Hybrid Methods -- 3.3.4. Relevance in Science and Practice -- 3.4. Prediction of Preference Data -- 3.4.1. Definition and Classification -- 3.4.2. Item- and User-based Collaborative Filtering -- 3.4.3. Applications in Practice -- 3.5. Derived Challenges -- 4. The Preference-Driven Lead User Method -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2. Conceptual Basis -- 4.2.1. Fundamental Challenges -- 4.2.2. Methodological Adaption -- 4.2.3. Basic Concept -- 4.3. Detailed Description of the Phases -- 4.3.1. Phase 1 - Preparation for Project Launch -- 4.3.2. Phase 2 - Identification of Trends and Internal Contributions -- 4.3.3. Phase 3 - Exploration of the User Community

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- Neighborhoods and public health issues -- Introduction -- References -- Section one - Epidemiology of arboviruses in Zambia -- Chapter 2 -- Distribution of arboviruses and their correlates in North-Western and Western provinces of Zambia: A synthesis of papers from a 2013 yellow fever risk assessment survey -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Yellow fever -- Dengue -- West Nile virus -- Zika -- Vectors -- Methods -- Study site -- Human seroprevalence study -- Study population -- Sample size, inclusion/exclusion criteria and sampling -- Sample size -- Persons aged 5 years or older -- Persons under the age of 5 years -- Inclusion/exclusion criteria -- Sampling -- First stage selection -- Second stage selection -- Study variables -- Dependent variables -- Independent variables -- Laboratory procedure -- Interpretation of laboratory results -- Data collection and quality control -- Data analysis -- Ethical considerations in the human seroprevalence study -- Socio-mobilisation and community engagement -- Mosquitoes study -- Sample size and sampling in the mosquito survey -- Adult mosquito sampling -- Larvae/pupae sampling -- Specific entomological activities conducted in the assessment -- Investigating viral infection in yellow fever mosquito vectors -- Sample treatment, processing and testing for yellow fever mosquito vectors -- Questionnaire of indoor residual spraying -- Training -- Entomologic data management and analysis -- Ethical considerations for sampling mosquitoes -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Prevalence of yellow fever in North-Western province of Zambia -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Methods -- Study population, sample size and sampling -- Data management and analysis -- Ethical considerations -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4

"This edited volume of 13 original empirical chapters provides new insight into the uneven and stalled nature of the gender revolution in the United States in the 21st century. Organized in two parts, the book documents the influence of gender as a social institution as it intersects with other core social institutions and other key forms of inequality and highlights specific policy interventions needed to facilitate greater gender equality. An introductory chapter situates contemporary understanding of gender inequality into the broader theoretical landscape on gender and intersectionality. The chapters in the first part of the book, Changing and Unchanging Institutions, assess the gender revolution in society's core institutions: the family, higher education, the workplace, religion, the military, and sports. These chapters assess progress toward gender equality and the policies that are needed to promote equality. The second part of the book, Gender Politics and Policies, focuses on arenas where gender politics are frequently at play as well as specific examples of policy- and practice-oriented approaches to reducing gender inequality: political and economic leadership, work-family integration policies, health, immigration, globalization, and sexuality. The volume closes with a summary of specific policy implications for the community, organizational, and federal levels derived from the book's empirical chapters."--Provided by publisher